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Fusion reactors could create ingredients for a nuclear weapon in weeks

Concern over the risks of enabling nuclear weapons development is usually focused on nuclear fission reactors, but the potential harm from more advanced fusion reactors has been underappreciated

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A worker inside the vacuum vessel of the DIII-D fusion reactor

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Nuclear fusion experiment overcomes two key operating hurdles

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Annie Jacobsen: 'What if we had a nuclear war?’

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Annie Jacobsen: 'What if we had a nuclear war?’

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Read an extract from Nuclear War: A scenario by Annie Jacobsen

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Read an extract from Nuclear War: A scenario by Annie Jacobsen

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Physics

UK spurns European invitation to join ITER nuclear fusion project

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Physics

How do you recycle a nuclear fusion reactor? We're about to find out

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Space

Russia’s space weapon: Is it nuclear and does it pose a threat?

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Rendering of 192 laser beams as they reach the target in the center of the National Ignition Facility’s Target Chamber

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Nuclear fusion reaction releases almost twice the energy put in

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Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden

Technology

How the US and China talking AI safety could reduce nuclear war risk

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Oxygen-28 has 8 protons and 20 neutrons

Physics

Super-heavy oxygen hints at problem with the laws of physics

An unprecedentedly heavy version of oxygen is significantly less stable than expected, which suggests a problem our understanding of the nuclear strong force

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Life

Turtles keep a record of nuclear activity in their shells

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Technology

Oppenheimer: What led to the physicist's downfall?

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Environment

Should Japan dump Fukushima's radioactive water into the ocean?

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Situation at Ukrainian nuclear plant is dangerous, IAEA boss warns

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